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by cwinters
Sun Mar 07, 2010 10:38 pm
Forum: The King's Quest Series
Topic: help needed to run KQ1 under DOSBox
Replies: 9
Views: 2575

Re: help needed to run KQ1 under DOSBox

KQ2 just won't work for me, I guess, but on the up side, KQ3 is running just fine. Thanks for the help.
by cwinters
Thu Mar 04, 2010 9:16 pm
Forum: The King's Quest Series
Topic: help needed to run KQ1 under DOSBox
Replies: 9
Views: 2575

Re: help needed to run KQ1 under DOSBox

The installer page, right? Tried that already, and got that darn message about putting in the original disk. Your first reply had a link within it - something about a patch for kq1. When I clicked that, kq1 started - no disk request. So I was hoping there might be a patch like that for kq2 and others.
by cwinters
Wed Mar 03, 2010 10:34 pm
Forum: The King's Quest Series
Topic: help needed to run KQ1 under DOSBox
Replies: 9
Views: 2575

Re: help needed to run KQ1 under DOSBox

I've had a lot of fun playing KQ1, thanks to your patch. Now I'd like to play KQ2 - KQ6, but at least on 2 I'm running into the same problem of needing the original disk. Do you have patches for the later games, too, that you would share? I've got all the original '80s and '90s games and disks and a...
by cwinters
Thu Feb 25, 2010 8:20 pm
Forum: The King's Quest Series
Topic: help needed to run KQ1 under DOSBox
Replies: 9
Views: 2575

Re: help needed to run KQ1 under DOSBox

YES! The patch did it. Thanks much.
by cwinters
Thu Feb 18, 2010 7:05 pm
Forum: The King's Quest Series
Topic: help needed to run KQ1 under DOSBox
Replies: 9
Views: 2575

help needed to run KQ1 under DOSBox

I'm trying to get my original DOS/AGI King's Quest games to play on my XP computer. I copied the 3.5" disks to my harddrive (C:\oldgames\sierra\kq1, etc), then downloaded DOSBox (version 0.72) and followed the directions in its readme file to mount the old games folder. I think I did it right t...

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